"Chapter Ninety-Seven: Mullen's Defeat"
What you've built over the years, someone destroys overnight, and you have to build it anyway.
- Mother Teresa (world-renowned Catholic charity worker, founder of the Missionary Society of Charity)
At noon on the day of the outbreak of the border battle, Roderick, whose army was only fifteen miles from the battlefield, received an urgent military situation sent back by Hall, but he did not immediately lead his army to the aid of Hall, but sent a large number of cavalry to patrol and reconnoiter north and south along the border line.
Because the 250,000 troops under Mullen's command only accounted for one-third of the total strength of the Eastern Alliance, Roderick did not dare to use the 150,000 troops under his command easily until he found out the whereabouts of the other 450,000 troops of the Eastern Alliance.
After three days of carpet searching, the 40,000 cavalry searched the battlefield for hundreds of miles, but could not find any trace of the 450,000 Eastern Alliance troops.
After three days of fierce fighting, Roderick, who was always paying attention to the battle situation, naturally knew how heavy the casualties were inflicted on Hall's army, and seeing the blood of more than 100,000 soldiers on his side spilled on the battlefield was also a torment for Roderick.
Therefore, after confirming that there was no trace of the enemy army within a hundred miles of the battlefield, Roderick, who had been suppressed for a long time, immediately led his army to the battlefield, and the first reinforcement to rush to the battlefield was the 40,000 Lucy cavalry under Roderick's command!
The 40,000 soldiers of Hall's department, who were caught in the scuffle, were overjoyed and demoralized when they saw the 40,000 Lucy cavalry suddenly appear on the edge of the battlefield, while the 80,000 soldiers under Malen's department were frightened and frightened, and their morale plummeted.
The 40,000 Lucy cavalry, who were shocked by the battlefield in front of them, which was as tragic as the hell of Shura, did not react, and under the command of their respective generals, they surrounded the panicked enemy troops from the periphery of the battlefield in four directions.
Knowing that it was impossible for his soldiers to escape the pursuit of the enemy cavalry, Mullen ordered the demoralized warriors to continue to move forward in an attempt to evade the charge of the enemy cavalry in a melee manner, and at the same time ordered the soldiers of the overseer to turn back to meet the enemy cavalry.
At this time, the size of the overseer team under the command of Ma Lun has long since lost the prosperity of the previous two days, and the 180,000 cannon fodder troops have been reduced to less than 40,000, and the number of the overseers responsible for supervising the cannon fodder troops has been reduced to 5,000, and all of them are not strong soldiers.
With the warriors of the 5,000 Dat tribe to meet the 20,000 Lucy cavalry charging from behind his own army, this was almost a self-defeating blockade, and Mullen, who had no other way, no matter how distressed he was, had to make such a decision.
Otherwise, the 80,000-strong army under Mullen's command, which had no hope of breaking through head-on, would inevitably collapse if the left and right flanks and the rear were attacked by the enemy's cavalry at the same time.
Gritting his teeth, Mullen personally led a thousand guards and 5,000 soldiers to turn around to meet the 20,000 Lucy cavalry that was about to charge; as for the left and right flanks of his own army, whether they could each withstand the impact of the enemy's 10,000 cavalry, Mullen had no time to think.
It turned out that the light cavalry lacking shock power was only light cavalry after all, and even the 20,000 light cavalry could not break through the line of 6,000 infantry soldiers in one fell swoop, and even so, they still inflicted heavy casualties on the defending infantry.
In just one charge of the 20,000 Lucy cavalry, more than 2,000 defenders were killed on the spot, and countless others were wounded, while the 20,000 Lucy cavalry, who were the attackers, paid the price of three or four hundred unlucky cavalrymen who fell from their horses and died.
The 20,000 Lucy cavalry, who had failed in a single charge, regrouped again after quickly getting rid of the entanglement of the Eastern Alliance defenders, and then, without giving the defenders a chance to breathe, they began their second round of charge!
This time, Mullen, whose strength had shrunk by nearly half, was no longer able to recover, and the surging Lucy cavalry easily tore through the defenses of the defending warriors, and overwhelmed the Dat tribe warriors who were trying to resist them, and pointed directly at the main force of Malen's troops who were fighting.
The left and right flanks of Malen's division, which barely blocked the charge of the 20,000 Lucy cavalry, could still draw more troops to meet the 20,000 Lucy cavalry rushing behind them;
The charge of 20,000 Lucy cavalry from the rear of the Mullen army was like the last straw that broke the camel's back, and the entire Mullen army, which was already on the verge of collapse, finally collapsed, and more than 60,000 soldiers of the Mullen army became deserters who scattered and fled in order to survive.
With the 40,000 Lucy cavalry under Roderick's command, how could the two legs of the more than 60,000 defeated troops under Mullen's command outrun the four legs of the horses under the Lucy cavalry? After about 5,000 defeated soldiers were killed on the spot by the Lucy cavalry, the other defeated soldiers began to surrender.
The defeated troops of Mullen, who took the initiative to lay down their weapons and planned to surrender to seek a chance of survival, did not become prisoners of Lucy's army as they wished, because the soldiers of Hall who killed the red eyes had no intention of leaving prisoners at all!
The bloody battle in the previous three days had cost the 150,000 troops of Hall's troops a heavy price of more than 110,000 soldiers.
After tens of thousands of defeated soldiers who laid down their weapons were mercilessly slaughtered by the Lucy warriors, the remaining 40,000 remnants of the defeated troops of the Mullen Army, on the premise that they could not escape death, raised their weapons again and began to desperately resist the unstoppable Lucy army.
Mullen, who escaped because he was protected by several guards, was originally going to escape in the rout, but unexpectedly, the red-eyed Lucy army planned to slaughter all the routs, forcing him to stand up and organize the desperately resisting rout to launch a counterattack.
It is a pity that in the face of absolute strength, the trapped beasts of more than 40,000 defeated troops under Malen's army are still fighting, and it is difficult to reverse the tide of the battle, and about half an hour later, the remnants of Malen's army, which is struggling to resist, ushered in the 100,000 Lucy army led by Roderick himself.
The siege of nearly 180,000 Lucy cavalry troops was a definite defeat for the remnants of Mullen's army, which had fought to the point of exhaustion, but Mullen knew that as long as he held on for another hour, he might not have the possibility of turning the tide of the battle!
The reason why Mulen put forward the battle plan of dividing his troops to attack was to annihilate in one fell swoop the 300,000 troops deployed on the border by the Luxi tribe; but he himself did not expect that the combat effectiveness of the border garrison of the Luxi tribe would be much stronger than he expected.
Mullen, who had been hated for eternity for a long time, had indeed succeeded in attracting all the 300,000 border garrisons of the Luxi tribe, and even fought out the 120,000 Lucy garrisons, but the price he paid for this was a tragic consequence that he could not bear himself.